Do you QA your Python? Was: 2.1 vs. 2.2

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> Guido is very reluctant to break code, but it's not an absolute for him:

[Anthony Baxter]
> Note that this is a "in new major releases" statement. Breaking code in
> a point release isn't something that happens. I'm not aware of any code
> changes in 2.1.2 or 2.1.3 that broke someone's 2.1.1 code. If someone
> can point me to these changes that caused problems, I'd love to see them.

All true, and all true by intent, and we've seen no report of any breakage
yet in a micro release (although we eventually will).

> If instead this whole discussion is just usenet noise, with no real
> point or purpose, then ignore the previous paragraph. Needless to say,
> I wait with baited breath for the collection of shocking
> incompatibilities to roll in.

Most of the discussion hasn't been about micro releases.

> (is it a fact of usenet that over time, all newsgroups become like
> comp.lang.perl.misc?)

All of life is like comp.lang.perl.misc, if you live long enough <wink>.